[Nottingham] Changing OSx for Linux

[James of the Family Moore]

On 21/06/2010 21:22, Joshua Lock wrote:
>
> If I remember correctly from my iBook owning days the airport cards 
> are Broadcom based.
>

I had a G4 iBook, you would be right: the Airport Extreme is Broadcom based.

> If so you'll need some extra firmware which is reasonably easily 
> acquired, there always used to be plenty of documentation for this a 
> short Google away.
>
> If you go for Yellowdog I'd be surprised if there installation didn't 
> handle this, as iirc the class of hardware you have is their target 
> market.
>

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Again, right: Yellowdog installs without the need for a firmware update 
to get the Airport working. I had some trouble getting the Airport 
working under Debian/PPC, I can't remember if it necessitated a firmware 
update but I did eventually get it sort of working (it wouldn't connect 
to my Belkin router, that might have been down to the router)

Cheers

Jim